Royal tour: Cheers and boos as the Royal couple visit children's hospital

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit patients in the neonatal and cancer
units of a Montreal hospital as supporters and a group of protesters gather
outside.

10:21AM BST 03 Jul 2011

While crowds of supporters stood with cameras and flowers in hand chanting "Will and Kate," protesters staged a small demonstration against the royal visit, holding signs with slogans reading: 'parasite go home' and 'criminal of war'.

The supporters and protesters waited outside while Prince William and Kate Middleton visited patients for almost two hours in the neonatal and cancer units of Sainte-Justine Hospital, Canada's largest mother-child centre.

Saturday's schedule contrasted with the first two days of the nine-day Canadian tour that included events with thousands of people watching the royal couple

Anti-monarchist groups in Quebec have vowed to protest the visit by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the French-speaking province and security was expected to be even tighter than at events in Ottawa, Canada's capital.

Some recent tours by members of the Royal family have avoided Quebec, where many still see Britain's defeat of France in 1759 giving it sovereignty over Canada as a raw wound.

Supporters of the monarchy in Canada see the couple's first overseas tour since becoming married in April as an opportunity to reinvigorate public interest in the royal family.